Shortificator - My personal video generator

06 Jun 2026

How I built a Shorts factory that runs 100% on my own machine

If you mess with YouTube at all, you’ve seen Opus Clip, Klap, SubMagic and the rest. You drop in a long video, the tool cuts the best moments, slaps on animated captions, and hands you ready-to-post Shorts. It works. The catch is the usual one: it’s SaaS, you pay monthly, and your video gets uploaded to someone else’s server.